SCOTUS Rules on Two Patent Matters

The US Supreme Court handed down two rulings to the specialized appeals court that hears patent cases earlier this week. In Limelight Networks v. Akamai the court rejected the concept of "divided infringement." saying that all steps must be performed by a single entity of entities joined under contact for their to be patent infringement. In Nautilus v. Biosig it was determined that the appeals court had used language that was too restrictive in requiring that patents be "insolubly ambiguous," and that "sufficiently definite" should be used in its place.